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-=====THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER=====
+=====The Sydney Bushwalker =====
 A Journal devoted to matters of interest to the
 Sydney Bush Walkers, 5 Hamilton St, Sydney, N.S.W.
-No 35 OCTOBER, 1937
+No 35. October, 1937
 |**Editor**|Mary M Byles|
 |**Sales Manager**|W J Mullins|
-**CONTENTS**
+**Contents**
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 |Wiff Seeks Old Sol Among The South Sea Islands |5|
 |"Paddy"|8|
-|Lob's Hole, Yarrangobilly, Kiandra|9|
+|Lobs Hole, Yarrangobilly, Kiandra|9|
 |A Creed For Nature Lovers|14|
 |A Triumph of Tends - by Judex|15|
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-=====EDITORIAL=====
+=====Editorial=====
 There has been a revolution in the Club this quarter, and there was "not so much as the barking of a dog over it." The Club has bought a duplicator, the Business Manager has enlisted the services of three stalwart men to work it, and we are going to print our own "Sydney Bushwalker" in future and publish it once a month. And most revolutionary of all, don't faint! get your first-aid smelling salts ready instead! The price is to be threepence! and the annual sub. 4/. post free! Both the Editor and the Business Manager feel that it would be far better if the cost of "The Sydney Bushwalker" were included in the Club's annual subscription which would accordingly be slightly raised. But perhaps this would be a little too revolutionary at the moment. We are just letting you know now so that the idea  will have had time to sink in before the Annual Meeting. That is what you call Fabian tactics, is it not?
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 The Editor also takes the opportunity of thanking Miss Kath McKay for correcting manuscript for this issue. But if you find any mistakes don't blame Kath because all articles did not pass through her hands. Incidentally, she typed out all of Wiff's letter. Has the Club ever thought of presenting Wiff with a fountain pen? Before he goes in quest of King Sol again, the Club might very well spend some of its superfluous funds on this excellent object, and confiscate his horrid lead pencil.
-=====ON SUB-SECTIONS GENERALLY......The Rock-Climbing Section In Particular=====
+=====On Sub-sections generally......The Rock-Climbing Section In Particular=====
 by Dot English
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 In a political sense we have the "Left Wing", whose adherents can always be relied upon to raise contentious matter at General Meetings, and are generally agin the Government, no matter what the Government's opinion may be.
-Also worthy of mention is the recently formed band of "Tigers" whose Hurculean achievements put them so obviously in a class entirely the reverse to the "Pionic-ers" that it is almost superfluous to point out the fact.
+Also worthy of mention is the recently formed band of "Tigers" whose Hurculean achievements put them so obviously in a class entirely the reverse to the "Picnic-ers" that it is almost superfluous to point out the fact.
 An announcement has also been made concerning the formation of a "Light Brigade" (foundation members Alex Colley and Dot English). Anyone can join - there is no charge, the only condition of membership being that the weekend pack must not exceed 15 lbs. This, we feel, is stating an exceptionally high maximum. When all the Bright Ideas of Club members are put into operation (aided and abetted, of course, by our invaluable and priceless Paddy) there is no saying where we might end.
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 In next issue you will be able to read Installment 2 on this subject, so 'buy your copy early.
-=====MOLLY-M00-MA=====
+=====Molly-Moo-Ma=====
 by Clare Kinsella
 It was on a Sabbath morning
 In the soft autumnal weather
 In the deep and narrow valley
 Where the river Grose runs swiftly
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 Came the puffing, panting, party
 Came the others on probation
-For this was indeed a test walk Yes, indeed it was a test walk.
+For this was indeed a test walk
+Yes, indeed it was a test walk
 Test of brawn and test of muscle
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 Keep her from the cleansing waters
 Keep her from her heart's desire?
-Taking but her cake of lifebuoy, Rosy pink her cake of lifebuoy
+Taking but her cake of lifebuoy,
+Rosy pink her cake of lifebuoy
 Silently she left the party
 Walked beneath the casuarinas
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 Racing onward to destruction!!!
-=====WIFF SEEKS OLD SOL AMONG THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS=====
+=====Wiff Seeks Old Sol Among The South Sea Islands=====
 Moorea Island, via Tahiti
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 Your club-mate, Wiff.
-**Paddy hopes** that the weather for Eight-hour week-end will be as reliable as Paddy made gear, and each night as you lie down to rest in your Paddy-made Sleeping Bag on your Paddy-made groundsheet inside your Paddy-made tent with head resting maybe on your Paddy-made Rucksack may you enjoy the sweet refreshing sleep that comes after an active well enjoyed day in the bush.
-In other words good camping.
-=====LOB'S HOLE, TARRANGOBILLY, KIANDRA=====
+=====Lobs Hole, Yarrangobilly, Kiandra=====
 On the 19th December 1936, Harry Savage, Joan Fitzpatrick and myself were met at Wagga by Jimmy Muir who drove us to Tumbarumba by car. The country was looking beautiful, grass knee high all spangled with mild flowers, daisies, buttercups, dandelions and violets. About four or five miles out of Tumbarumba we left the main road and turned off on a rough bush track which stretches twenty miles to the Tumut River. Jimmy expected to be able to take the car about ten miles along this track.  I said it was a rough bush track and it was just that - over stumps and rocks, twisting and turning in and out of trees and up and down terribly steep little pinches, across gullies where the road was washed into gutters, and around trees that had fallen across the track. After about two or three miles of this it got too rough and we three had to get out and walk. My walking shoes were in my pack and I had a pair of new black sandals.
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 We celebrated Christmas Eve that night, Santa Claus and all.
-A CREED FOR NATURE LOVERS
+=====A Creed for Nature Lovers=====
+I believe:-
+That the Australian continent not only provided the cradle but the ever-lasting home of the fascinating flowers, birds and furred animals which awaited the coming of civilisation.
-believe:.
-That the Australian continent not only provided the cradle but the ever. lasting home of the fascinating flowers, birds aad furred animals which awaited the coming of civilisation.
 That I should not harm any living thing unharmful to me, as I hope to avoid harmful things, and that even harmful creatures should be controlled with due regard to their scientific importance and right to survival.
-That to enjoy the living plants and animals is a more lasting and universal source of pleasure than to collect their remains, excepting where science is aided, and their exhibition increases knowledge said love of nature.
-That the nests of birds, built with such skill and patience, should not be destroyed in a moment of curiosity, and that eggs should be left to hatch forth lovely feathered songbirds, rifling of their homes being as wicked as theft from
+That to enjoy the living plants and animals is a more lasting and universal source of pleasure than to collect their remains, excepting where science is aided, and their exhibition increases knowledge and love of nature.
-my own.
+That the nests of birds, built with such skill and patience, should not be destroyed in a moment of curiosity, and that eggs should be left to hatch forth lovely feathered songbirds, rifling of their homes being as wicked as theft from my own.
 That as the bushes and trees provide food and shelter for birds and marsupials such as the koala, such shelter should not be destroyed without reason or adequate replacement, mad that wild flowers should be gathered with all the care due to living things of exquisite scent and beauty.
-That wholesale sacrifice of native animals for monetary gain in a country rich in natural resources of minerals, grain and stock, is a confession of greed 0 and incompetence unworthy of the Australian Commonwealth.
+That wholesale sacrifice of native animals for monetary gain in a country rich in natural resources of minerals, grain and stock, is a confession of greed and incompetence unworthy of the Australian Commonwealth.
 That, as Australia has the gentlest and least harmful furred animals the world has known, they should be given sanctuary and conserved with benevolent care for their future survival, subject only to vital needs for the existence of man, their more advanced but ofttimes unnatural brother.
 From "Scouting in N.S.W."
-WW4M011.4.11m
-THE TRIUMPH OF TENTS
+=====The Triumph of Tents=====
-Being an Interview. with P.A. Palline
-By Judex.
+Being an Interview with F.A. Pallin
-Paddy was cornered. Be sat on his counter dangling his legs and smiling like a little school boy placed in a, perhaps flattering but certainly, embarrassing, situation.
+By Judex
+Paddy was cornered. Be sat on his counter dangling his legs and smiling like a little school boy placed in a perhaps flattering but certainly, embarrassing, situation.
 "I want you to tell me how you came to make tents and bushwalking gear." I said.
-"Its a long story," was the reply. And it was. It took us back to school days and the Harbour Master at Hartlepool, England, who took an interest in boy scouts.
-Ifou lads do a lot of camping", he said one day, "why don't you make a tent for yourselves?"
+"Its a long story," was the reply. And it was. It took us back to school days and the Harbour Master at Hartlepool, England, who took an interest in boy scouts.  If you lads do a lot of camping", he said one day, "why don't you make a tent for yourselves?"
-He produced a bundle of old duck, 18 oz a yard stuff or thereabouts ( of Japara at 2i oz.), and they set to work with palms and sail needles. They stitched and stitched. It was hard work and there were many broken needles, Mien it was finished it was so heavy they could not make it stand up. They took it to the Yorkshire Moors and used it to keep the firewood dry!
+He produced a bundle of old duck, 18 oz a yard stuff or thereabouts ( of Japara at 2½ oz.), and they set to work with palms and sail needles. They stitched and stitched. It was hard work and there were many broken needles.  When it was finished it was so heavy they could not make it stand up. They took it to the Yorkshire Moors and used it to keep the firewood dry!
 That was Paddy's first tent, apart of course from table-clothes and such like on the back lawn.
-Then the War came and Paddy joined the air...force, but peace was declared, soon after. In addition to her other benefits Peace brought yards and yards of air-ship fabric going begging at 2/- a yard, absolutely water-proof - and incidentally, air-proof bright, shimmering and silver - just the stuff for a tent for a holiday in the Lake District. So Paddy and his pal set to work and made a "A" tent of their own patent with marvellous tent poles of iron tubing contributed by the pal who was an engineer.
-Soon after this Paddy left the parental roof and went to live in London where the hurley burley of life left no time for camping. He was deep in the heart of the Boy Scout Movement and that sufficed. So it was not till 1922 or 1923 that the third tent appeared, a pyramid variety especially designed for a cycling tour through the New Forest,
+Then the War came and Paddy joined the air-force, but peace was declared soon after. In addition to her other benefits Peace brought yards and yards of air-ship fabric going begging at 2/- a yard, absolutely water-proof and incidentally, air-proof, bright, shimmering and silver - just the stuff for a tent for a holiday in the Lake District. So Paddy and his pal set to work and made an "A" tent of their own patent with marvelous tent poles of iron tubing contributed by the pal who was an engineer.
-"But what did you do about your other tramping gear?" I interposed at this stage. "Did you make that, too!"
-"Oh, no, we bought that. You could always buy rucksacks and such like in London, and as for a sleeping bag, well, Mother gave me an eiderdown for my bed and I made it into a sleeping bag for my tent."
+Soon after this Paddy left the parental roof and went to live in London where the hurley burley of life left no time for camping. He was deep in the heart of the Boy Scout Movement and that sufficed. So it was not till 1922 or 1923 that the third tent appeared, a pyramid variety especially designed for a cycling tour through the New Forest.
-So it all might have ended with tents if Paddy had not developed wanderlust, or "itchy" feet, he called it, and taken ship for Australia in 1926. He and another man started running a dairy farm on shares, and had far too much to do to think about tents, camping, tramping, or even hiking. It was not altogether a success, so at the end of nine months he gave it up and instead took up fencing, and camped along side his fence in a little Itisa tent he had bought in London.
-By this time the "wide open spaces" were losing BOER of their romance; the flesh pots of Sydney called; Paddy chucked fencing and got a job something in his own line, office work, with an occasional camp at the week-end. He wrote and
+"But what did you do about your other tramping gear?" I interposed at this stage.
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-asked May to came out and get married which she did, and they svttled down to perfectly cr&nary suburban life, better than such life in London, perhaps, but still very, very ordinary, and Paddy felt he had failed in his quest - such glorious wonderful dreams and then to come down to this.
+"Did you make that, too!"  "Oh, no, we bought that. You could always buy rucksacks and such like in London, and as for a sleeping bag, well, Mother gave me an eiderdown for my bed and I made it into a sleeping bag for my tent."
+So it all might have ended with tents if Paddy had not developed wanderlust, or "itchy" feet, he called it, and taken ship for Australia in 1926. He and another man started running a dairy farm on shares, and had far too much to do to think about tents, camping, tramping, or even hiking. It was not altogether a success, so at the end of nine months he gave it up and instead took up fencing, and camped alongside his fence in a little Itisa tent he had bought in London.
+By this time the "wide open spaces" were losing some of their romance; the flesh pots of Sydney called; Paddy chucked fencing and got a job something in his own line, office work, with an occasional camp at the weekend. He wrote and asked May to come out and get married which she did, and they settled down to perfectly ordinary suburban life, better than such life in London, perhaps, but still very, very ordinary, and Paddy felt he had failed in his quest - such glorious wonderful dreams and then to come down to this.
 The only really exciting incident in the next year was a canoe trip down the Shoalhaven, May being probably the second woman to take such an expedition.
-The day they set off they registered their vote at the election that was to return Mr. Lang with all his wonderful promises of better things, On their return the promises came true but not quite in the way either Mr. Lang or Paddy might have mished. His firm found it necessary to retrench and Paddy being one of the later hands was given notice.
+The day they set off they registered their vote at the election that was to return Mr. Lang with all his wonderful promises of better things. On their return the promises came true but not quite in the way either Mr. Lang or Paddy might have wished. His firm found it necessary to retrench and Paddy being one of the later hands was given notice.
 It was a pretty serious thing for a newly married young man to be turned out of his job, and Paddy knew it. But still it seemed as if a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
-"The germ of the idea of making camping and hiking gear had been in my mind ever sinoe I tried to buy such at the Scout shmp in Sydney and found so little was to be bought. Now was the chance for the idea to come to life.
-May searched round aad got a job, a temporary one at first then a permanent one, while Paddy set to work to make tents with the old Singer Sewing Machine in his bedroom at home. He realized there was a potential market although he had not heard of the, by this time, quite flourishing club known as the Sydney Bush Walkers. He merely hoped to sell to the Scout shop.
+"The germ of the idea of making camping and hiking gear had been in my mind ever since I tried to buy such at the Scout shop in Sydney and found so little was to be bought. Now was the chance for the idea to come to life.
-The first he heard of the S.B.T% was from a friend in the Scout shop who said, "Theytre a pretty tight lot. They won't buy anything if they can make it themselves. But you have a go at them and see what you can do."
-Of course the reason we mould not buy things was not that we were a 'tight lot", but simply that we could not buy what we wanted, and perhaps that was just what Paddy also realized. anyhow he sent a circular to the Club members. It commenced, "Hike along and may the hi*ing be good." Paddy thinks the word "hike" is a good one if for no better reason than because it is a scout word, but all the same it was an inauspicious way of opening an advertising campaign expected to appeal to the bushwalkers. Altogether it was a very scouty circular with lovely pictures of trampers who were obviously scouts, but it described tents, packs and sleeping-bags, - just what the club wanted. There was an immediate response, a tent and several groundsheets were sold in the first week.
+May searched round and got a job, a temporary one at first then a permanent one, while Paddy set to work to make tents with the old Singer Sewing Machine in his bedroom at home. He realized there was a potential market although he had not heard of the, by this time, quite flourishing club known as the Sydney Bush Walkers. He merely hoped to sell to the Scout shop.
-Paddy did not join the S.B.W. at once. By the time he did, his business was flourishing sufficiently to justify taking a room in town. He still did all the work himself and he could not afford a tphone. But business grew steadily if slowly. The first frame rucksack was sold to Morrie Berry from whom it was stolen at the end of a week, the first unsolicited testimony for Paddy-made goods. Our friend, Oliver Wialf, joined him while he was still at this room, and accompan. led him when he moved above Hallam's where most of us originally made his aoquaintanoe.
-Business was undoubtedly growing, but it did not all grow in a day. Many weary weeks and months, even years, Paddy tramped round the city calling on all shops likely to buy his goods. His contempt for money and pity for salesman gradually,disappeared. He found he was generally treated with respect, and that he could still hold up his head in spite of his profession. From the jump he sold to the Scout shop, but other firms followed. The first tent sold outside
+The first he heard of the S.B.W. was from a friend in the Scout shop who said, "They're a pretty tight lot. They won't buy anything if they can make it themselves. But you have a go at them and see what you can do."
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-N. S.-% was to a Hobart firm. Probably Brenda White - or at any rate one of the SB.L. visiting Tasmania and demonstrating the excellency of Paddy-made goods - was responsiblefor the beginning of Paddy's now flourishing connection with Tasmaniaa Launceston followed Hobart and Melbourne too ,a But it does not end there. Paddy now sends his wares to as widely scattered places as Adelaide, Perth,, Darwin, Alice Springs and New Zealand,
+Of course the reason we would not buy things was not that we were a 'tight lot", but simply that we could not buy what we wanted, and perhaps that was just what Paddy also realized. Anyhow, he sent a circular to the Club members. It commenced, "Hike along and may the hiking be good." Paddy thinks the word "hike" is a good one if for no better reason than because it is a scout word, but all the same it was an inauspicious way of opening an advertising campaign expected to appeal to the bushwalkers. Altogether it was a very scouty circular with lovely pictures of trampers who were obviously scouts, but it described tents, packs and sleeping-bags, just what the club wanted. There was an immediate response, a tent and several groundsheets were sold in the first week.
-In 1936 he shifted into more spacious premises opposite Paling's and added canoeing and skiing gear to his list. It only remains to add mountaineering gear and the list will be complete, and who knows but that with the first parties to visit New Zealand this year this last will soon be addeda
-This is not the end of the story, but it is the end for the present, and is sufficient to make us realize just haw lucky we are to have in Sydney someone who lost his job in the depression and started to make what? "Hiking and Camping Gear?"
+Paddy did not join the S.B.W. at once. By the time he did, his business was flourishing sufficiently to justify taking a room in town. He still did all the work himself and he could not afford a phone. But business grew steadily if slowly. The first frame rucksack was sold to Morrie Berry from whom it was stolen at the end of a week, the first unsolicited testimony for Paddy-made goods. Our friend, Oliver Wulf, joined him while he was still at this room, and accompanied him when he moved above Hallam's where most of us originally made his acquaintance.
+Business was undoubtedly growing, but it did not all grow in a day. Many weary weeks and months, even years, Paddy tramped round the city calling on all shops likely to buy his goods. His contempt for money and pity for salesman gradually disappeared. He found he was generally treated with respect, and that he could still hold up his head in spite of his profession. From the jump he sold to the Scout shop, but other firms followed.
+The first tent sold outside N.S.W. was to a Hobart firm. Probably Brenda White, or at any rate one of the S.B.W. visiting Tasmania and demonstrating the excellency of Paddy-made goods. was responsible for the beginning of Paddy's now flourishing connection with Tasmania. Launceston followed Hobart and Melbourne too, but it does not end there. Paddy now sends his wares to as widely scattered places as Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Alice Springs and New Zealand.
+In 1936 he shifted into more spacious premises opposite Paling's and added canoeing and skiing gear to his list. It only remains to add mountaineering gear and the list will be complete, and who knows but that with the first parties to visit New Zealand this year this last will soon be added.
+This is not the end of the story, but it is the end for the present, and is sufficient to make us realize just how lucky we are to have in Sydney someone who lost his job in the depression and started to make what? "Hiking and Camping Gear?"
 No, certainly not, Paddy has altered his slogan in deference to our prejudices and he now makes "Camp Gear for Walkers."
-We are lucky, too, that it was not an ordinary business man merely out to make money, who first saw the potential market for bushwalking gear but a bush- walker like ourselves whose pleasure, as well as work, is to serve the buskwalking movement.
-PP.O1
+We are lucky too that it was not an ordinary business man merely out to make money who first saw the potential market for bushwalking gear, but a bushwalker like ourselves whose pleasure, as well as work, is to serve the buskwalking movement.
-PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
-BUSHLAND Vol. I No 1 Published for the Rangers' League N.S.W. This is not exactly received, To be quite correct it was pinched from an unsuspecting purchaser. It is, however, reviewed with the permission of the secretary who said it mould have been "received" had we been patient and waited. But we were not. It is full of interesting and informative articles about Australia's unique flora mad fauna. In particular there is a fascinating article on tame reptiles. Apparently even lizards respond to affection, and if they cannot purr like a cat or wag a tail like a dog they have other ways of expressing their feelings. However, buy the Magazine and read about it for yourself. We wish the Rangers' League success in its venture, and hope many more issues will follow.
+=====Publications Received=====
-By the way, have you heard the following remark on one of our foreign visiters? "Oh, yes, Dot English, I've met her. She's the secretary of the Bush-Rangers League I
-OOOOO OOOOO
+**Bushland Vol. I, No 1. Published for the Rangers' League N.S.W.**
-INTO THE BLUE No. 6 - This number is even better than usual. Several interesting accounts of unusual trips show that the Club is very alive. An annual dinner is also an interesting feature of the sooial activities.
+This is not exactly "received". To be quite correct it was "pinched" from an unsuspecting purchaser. It is, however, reviewed with the permission of the secretary who said it would have been "received" had we been patient and waited. But we were not. It is full of interesting and informative articles about Australia's unique flora mad fauna. In particular, there is a fascinating article on tame reptiles. Apparently even lizards respond to affection, and if they cannot purr like a cat or wag a tail like a dog they have other ways of expressing their feelings. However, buy the Magazine and read about it for yourself. We wish the Rangers' League success in its venture and hope many more issues will follow.
-THE TARARUA TRAMPER Vol. 9 No, 10. The chief feature of this is the large amount
-of space devoted to ski-ing, With the Tararuas snow-clad in winter at their back door this is perhaps natural. Some of our Kosciusko lavers will feel very envious. But the rest of us can take consolation in a little verse also printed in this issue
+By the way, have you heard the following remark on one of our foreign visitors? "Oh, yes, Dot English, I've met her. She's the secretary of the Bush-Rangers League!
-beginning and ending thus:.. "I think that I shall never see
-A stick so tricky as a ski Only God can make a tree -
+**Into the Blue No. 6**
+This number is even better than usual. Several interesting accounts of unusual trips show that the Club is very alive. An annual dinner is also an interesting feature of the sooial activities.
+**The Tararua Tramper Vol. 9, No. 10.**
+The chief feature of this is the large amount of space devoted to skiing. With the Tararuas snow-clad in winter at their back door this is perhaps natural. Some of our Kosciusko lovers will feel very envious. But the rest of us can take consolation in a little verse also printed in this issue
+beginning and ending thus:-
+"I think that I shall never see
+A stick so tricky as a ski
+Only God can make a tree
 But who in hell first made a ski?"
-- 18
-"FEDERATION NEWS
+=====Federation News=====
-You will be pleased to hear that the Federation has decided to publish a journal something like the last "Sydney Bushwalker" Annual. Photos are to be
-a special feature. So please send in your best, quarter or half plate enlargements on glossy paper with your name, address and club on the back, and also a short description of the place or scene photographed. If the photo should not be used we undertake to see it is placed on the notice board so that you may collect it. But probably it will be used for it is intended to have more illustrations than "The Sydney Buihwalker" annual.
+You will be pleased to hear that the Federation has decided to publish a journal something like the last "Sydney Bushwalker" Annual. Photos are to be a special feature. So please send in your best, quarter or half plate enlargements on glossy paper with your name, address and club on the back, and also a short description of the place or scene photographed. If the photo should not be used we undertake to see it is placed on the notice board so that you may collect it. But probably it will be used for it is intended to have more illustrations than "The Sydney Buihwalker" annual.
-The Federation is also publishing a leaflet setting out the objects of the Federation and it is intended-to distribute this on the trains on Sunday morning going to Waterfall, The object of this leaflet is to urge the organization of the unorganized walkers.
+The Federation is also publishing a leaflet setting out the objects of the Federation and it is intended to distribute this on the trains on Sunday morning going to Waterfall. The object of this leaflet is to urge the organization of the unorganized walkers.
 It is with regret that the Federation learned about the imposition of camping fees in Garawarra, but it did not feel the time was opportune to make a protest.
 It was reported to the Federation that the bushwalking representatives are temporarily, at any rate, the sole trustees, of Bouddi Natural Park.
 The extension of the Lady Carrington Drive to Otford is distressing the Federation very much. It has sought an interview with the Minister to put before him the views of the bushwalkers.
-The Bushwalkers Ball wa& a great success and it is hoped to show a not profit of 50 to be added to the general funds to forward the Federation's work this forthcoming year.
-assio4110
+The Bushwalkers Ball was a great success and it is hoped to show a net profit of £30 to be added to the general funds to forward the Federation's work this forthcoming year.
-CORRESPONDENCE
+=====Correspondence=====
 To the Editor,
-At our last Monthly Meeting it was decided that the "Annual" magazine be discontinued owing to the expense of production and the small returns from the sales. Of course it mould be impossible for the members of the Club to sell enough copies amongst their friends to pay for the paper but surely the magazine has a definite value in advertising New South Wales.
-We all know how many visitors we attract from other States and Overseas =lily through the circulation of the magazine to other Walking Clubs. If the many people who walk but do not belong to a walking club could see our magazine we mould be entertaining even more visitors than at present.
+At our last Monthly Meeting it was decided that the "Annual" magazine be discontinued owing to the expense of production and the small returns from the sales. Of course, it would be impossible for the members of the Club to sell enough copies among their friends to pay for the paper but surely the magazine has a definite value in advertising New South Wales.
-The Tasmanian Trampers with about one quarter of-our membership publishes 2,000 magazines; of these the Tasmanian Tourist Bureau disposes of 1,500, the Bookstalls 250$ leaving only 250 to the Club. If the work of such a small Club is of such benefit to Tasmania, that must the work of the S.B.W. be worth to New South Wales? We know by the numbers entertained but does the Government Tourist Bureau? Have they been approached? Before a definite decision, is made could we not get in touch with the Bureau? I feel that the discontinuance of the magazine would be a loss not only to ourselves but also to the State.
+We all know how many visitors we attract from other States and Overseas mainly through the circulation of the magazine to other Walking Clubs. If the many people who walk, but do not belong to a walking club, could see our magazine we would be entertaining even more visitors than at present.
+The Tasmanian Trampers with about one quarter of our membership publishes 2,000 magazines; of these the Tasmanian Tourist Bureau disposes of 1,500, the Bookstalls 250, leaving only 250 to the Club. If the work of such a small Club is of such benefit to Tasmania, what must the work of the S.B.W. be worth to New South Wales? We know by the numbers entertained, but does the Government Tourist Bureau? Have they been approached? Before a definite decision is made could we not get in touch with the Bureau? I feel that the discontinuance of the magazine would be a loss not only to ourselves but also to the State.
 Sincerely yours,
-Fo Allaworth.
+F. Allsworth
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-NEWS FROM HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE
+=====News From Here There And Everywhere=====
-Centenary Celebrations
-The ?arks and Playgrounds Movement point out that all the fireworks which went off to celebrate the Centenary of New South Males have been forgotten, but Centennial Park remains. In New Zealand they are intending to dedicat* the whole of the Tararua Range of Mountains as a national park to commemorate their Centenary for all time. Next year we shall celebrate our one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Shall we crown it only with fireworks? The Parks and Playgrounds Movement suggests instead a string of parks around Sydney, and we would suggest
+====Centenary Celebrations====
-also that it is a fitting time to dedicate the grand Blue Mountains National Park for which the National Parks and Primitive Areas Council have striven so long.
+The Parks and Playgrounds Movement point out that all the fireworks which went off to celebrate the Centenary of New South Males have been forgotten, but Centennial Park remains. In New Zealand they are intending to dedicate the whole of the Tararua Range of Mountains as a national park to commemorate their Centenary for all time. Next year we shall celebrate our one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Shall we crown it only with fireworks? The Parks and Playgrounds Movement suggests instead a string of parks around Sydney, and we would suggest also that it is a fitting time to dedicate the grand Blue Mountains National Park for which the National Parks and Primitive Areas Council have striven so long.
-Snake Bite Outfits
-How much did you pay for yours? The Potomac Applachian Trail Club has arranged with a local "druggist" to put up special sets at a price of 3 dollars, or over 12/-. They must have very large snakes over therei
+====Snake Bite Outfits====
-Heavy meight campin
+How much did you pay for yours? The Potomac Applachian Trail Club has arranged with a local "druggist" to put up special sets at a price of 3 dollars, or over 12/-. They must have very large snakes over there!
-The same club is arranging a ten days' camp and the food and gear is to be taken out by pack-horse. This and a perusal of the menu recommended shows haw different are camping methods there and here:-
-Dinner: 2 pint cans of soup, 2 cans of chicken a la king or canned chicken, two vegetables, bread0'dwissert (2 cans fruit).
+====Heavy-weight Camping====
+The same club is arranging a ten days' camp and the food and gear is to be taken out by pack-horse. This and a perusal of the menu recommended shows how different are camping methods there and here:-
+Dinner: 2 pint cans of soup, 2 cans of chicken a la king or canned chicken, two vegetables, bread, dessert (2 cans fruit).
 Breakfast: 2 pints fruit juice, 2 corn beef hash or 2 cans baked beans (do not bring eggs) bacon or flapjack flour
 For 2 lunches: 1 loaf bread, 2 packages cheese, 2 jars jelly, cookies, raisins.
-Cupid and Restriction of Membership
-From time to time we hear the cry that our membership (over 200) is growing too rapidly and ways and -means of reducing it are suggested. Here comes a hint from the Melbourne Ments Walking Club which holds Cupid responsible for the falling off in membership. Cupid causes no falling off in members in a mixed club. On the contrary by adding baby bushwalkers he tends rather to increase them. Moral: If you want to reduce membership, turn the women out and let Cupid
+====Cupid and Restriction of Membership====
+From time to time we hear the cry that our membership (over 200) is growing too rapidly and ways and means of reducing it are suggested. Here comes a hint from the Melbourne Mens Walking Club which holds Cupid responsible for the falling off in membership. Cupid causes no falling off in members in a mixed club. On the contrary by adding baby bushwalkers he tends rather to increase them.
+Moral: If you want to reduce membership, turn the women out and let Cupid
 do the rest.
-.
-I ought to write to Dorothy, I ought to write to Jim, Uncle asked me down to stay, I ought to write to him;
+I ought to write to Dorothy,
-I ought to write to Auntie Maude, And Barbara and Fred.
+I ought to write to Jim,
-What a_lot of letters1
+Uncle asked me down to stay,
-/ think Itll go to bed.
+I ought to write to him;
-M.H. Punch" a. May 1937.
+I ought to write to Auntie Maude,
-And the same happens when you say nI ought to write that article for "The Sydney Bushwalkeri" ' Ed.
+And Barbara and Fred.
-p.20. ROUND THE GAMP FIRE
+What a lot of letters!
+I think I'll go to bed.
+M.H. Punch" May 1937
+And the same happens when you say, "I ought to write that article for "The Sydney Bushwalker!" ' Ed.
+=====Round The Camp Fire=====
 The wedding bells were ringing again on the 10th. of.September, ringing for Arnold Barrett and Iris Roxtro, but not many people knew about it until the president announced at the General Meeting that we had the pleasure of having Mr. and Mrs. Barrett - general clapping - with us. "The Sydney Bushwalker" claps, too.
-Another person we have been pleased to have with us is Mr. C.E. Hawkins (Forty) of the Melbourne 'Walking ClUb, but it is sad to record that he favoured the meet of the H.H. Club on the 12th. September, instead of that of the Official S.B.W. trip. What is the H.H.. Club anyhow?
-.11., ...
+Another person we have been pleased to have with us is Mr. C.E. Hawkins (Forty) of the Melbourne 'Walking Club, but it is sad to record that he favoured the meet of the H.H. Club on the 12th. September, instead of that of the Official S.B.W. trip. What is the H.H. Club anyhow?
-A, particularly pleasing announcement we have to make is the engagement of Eve Eason and Noel Turnbull, two more comrades of the bush to be comrades for life. Our blessings on theml
-For the seventh year Gordon Smith won the 50 metres (31 miles) championship of the N.S.L Walking Club beating his own record - 1 mile in 5 hours 28 minutes - not bad going?
+A particularly pleasing announcement we have to make is the engagement of Eve Eason and Noel Turnbull, two more comrades of the bush to be comrades for life. Our blessings on them!
-- Altogether the Club was well represented. Ben Hsll, Frank Gentle and David Stead taking all the next places. Heartiest congratulations to all four of our champions!
-The Victorian Tourist Bureau has sent us an interesting account of a new track recently opened for bushwalkers, trampers, hikers, or whatever such people are called in Victoria. This shows that the Tourist Bureau of that State is fully alive to the importance of the pedestrian tourist traffic. It is one of the crying needs of New South Wales that the inexperienced walker should be catered for by provision of more tra'eks. Our present policy seems to be to turn the few tracks which exist into roads, and remove rather than encourage the pastime which above all others develops that Al type of citizen we profess to desire. We should do well to take a lesson from Victoria.
+For the seventh year Gordon Smith won the 50 metres (31 miles) championship of the N.S.W. Walking Club beating his own record - 1 mile in 5 hours 28 minutes - not bad going?
-The little dickr bird in the orange blossoms told us something about Arthur Saill and Marvey Moir, The). Hellyerts younger sister. Is it true?
+Altogether the Club was well represented. Ben Hall, Frank Gentle and David Stead taking all the next places. Heartiest congratulations to all four of our champions!
-A little John Sing recently arrived in the world. BA has been named Peter Jane, so you may call him either ran John Sing or Young Jong Sing.
-That ten shilling note the Social Secretary was hawking around finally landed with Miss Coffey, you wil/ be interested to know. Your turn next time perhape But incidentally the Social Secretary says it was all most illegal.
+The Victorian Tourist Bureau has sent us an interesting account of a new track recently opened for bushwalkers, trampers, hikers, or whatever such people are called in Victoria. This shows that the Tourist Bureau of that State is fully alive to the importance of the pedestrian tourist traffic. It is one of the crying needs of New South Wales that the inexperienced walker should be catered for by provision of more tracks. Our present policy seems to be to turn the few tracks which exist into roads, and remove rather than encourage the pastime which above all others develops that Al type of citizen we profess to desire. We should do well to take a lesson from Victoria.
-TEE N.S.W. RECREATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD.
-Wouldn't it be fine if we Bushwalkers, Trailers, Canoe-ers, Coast and Mountain Walkers, Narrigalers and the others, had a club of our own in Sydney.
+The little dicky-bird in the orange blossoms told us something about Arthur Saill and Marvey Moir, Thel Hellyer's younger sister. Is it true?
+A little John Sing recently arrived in the world. He has been named Peter Jane, so you may call him either Yan John Sing or Young Jong Sing.
+That ten shilling note the Social Secretary was hawking around finally landed with Miss Coffey, you will be interested to know. Your turn next time perhaps. But incidentally, the Social Secretary says it was all most illegal.
+=====The N.S.W. Recreational Co-Operative Society Ltd=====
+Wouldn't it be fine if we Bushwalkers, Trailers, Canoe-ers, Coast and Mountain Walkers, Warrigalers and the others, had a club of our own in Sydney.
 The sort of place where we could drop in for a meal and a chat at lunch time, or during those awkward two hours between work and 'going places' in the evening.
-Somewhere where we could leave our packs on the my to the office on Saturday, and go there for a feed and to change at noon before going off for that week-end in the bush.
-A place where our respective clubs would hire their clubrooms for meetings, awl a room for socials, or those rehersals etc. A central office for our secretaries to do our club business in, with typewriters, duplioators, etc.
+Somewhere where we could leave our packs on the way to the office on Saturday, and go there for a feed and to change at noon before going off for that weekend in the bush.
-All these things are possible through the principle of cooperation, and a draft prospectus of the proposed nutual Society is being discussed by your committees and the Federation,
+A place where our respective clubs would hire their clubrooms for meetings, and a room for socials, or those rehersals etc. A central office for our secretaries to do our club business in, with typewriters, duplicators, etc.
+All these things are possible through the principle of cooperation, and a draft prospectus of the proposed mutual Society is being discussed by your committees and the Federation.
 Such a Society would have the legal sanction to carry out all the business details, and would be financed by the clubs and individual supporters taking out shares.
-I think that it is the obvious way for us to go about getting worthy facilities for our growing out-door movement, don't you. If you do, lets get together and talk it over, and if things are to be ready for a meeting of formation before the end of October it depends on all you folk coming along with your ideas and enthusiasm right now.
+I think that it is the obvious way for us to go about getting worthy facilities for our growing outdoor movement, don't you? If you do, lets get together and talk it over, and if things are to be ready for a meeting of formation before the end of October it depends on all you folk coming along with your ideas and enthusiasm right now.
 Yours,
 Frank Duncan.